Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 24

Down the glen they ran, faster than the stream when the flood rides it; but the tailor had got the start and a nimble pair of legs, and he did not choose to lose the laird's reward.

Who acts: things, flood, tailor, laird · What happens: run, ride, get, not choose, lose, reward · To what, where: glen, stream, start, reward

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, flood, tailor, laird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Down	down	ADP	_	3 glen	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 glen	det
3	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 faster	punct
7	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 ran	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 stream	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stream	det
10	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 faster	obl
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 rides	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flood	det
13	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rides	nsubj
14	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 stream	acl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rides	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 got	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tailor	det
19	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 got	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 got	aux
21	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 ran	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 start	det
23	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 got	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pair	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pair	det
26	nimble	nimble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pair	amod
27	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 start	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 legs	case
29	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pair	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 choose	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 choose	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 choose	nsubj
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 choose	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 choose	advmod
35	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ran	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 lose	mark
37	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 choose	xcomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 laird	det
39	laird	laird	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 reward	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 laird	case
41	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lose	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	run	past	things = thing		the glen	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down glen=Trajectory
2	ride	present	the flood	stream		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location
3	get	past · perfect	the tailor	the start and a nimble pair of legs		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer start=Stimulus
4	not choose	past · do-support	tailor			tree rules
5	lose	to-infinitive	tailor not said here	the laird's reward		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Eventuality
6	reward		the laird			nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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